Dinâmicas sociorreligiosas e experiências negras na Maceió pós-abolição (1889-1899)

Abstract

The Experiences of persecution, conflict, survival strategies, as well as the recontextualization of citizenship and freedom involving Africans and Afro-descendants, defined the first decade of the post-abolition period of the Republic in the Alagoas’ capital, between the years of 1889 and 1899. This context influenced the formation of the Maceioense’s Xangô and the respective African practices and ancestry that founded it. That said, through Carlo Ginzburg's onomastic method and the indicative paradigm, we identified through press sources, memorial bibliographies, death documentation and photographs, some names associated with individual actions and also promoted by xangô terreiros. In addition, the operation carried out with the Penal Code of the United States of Brazil in 1890 and the Constitution of the Republic of the United States of Brazil in 1891 aligned with the analysis of the categories of curandeirismo, witchcraft and witchery, played a major role in the law interpretation under the Afro-religious population and other practices of belief and magic that were found in the sources studied. Therefore, studying the issues addressed, this dissertation focuses on the field of Social History of Religions, based on the concept of experience, minted by the historian Edward. P. Thompson, in order to delve into the economic, political, material, cultural and religious aspects in which the central agents of this study were inserted.